Near-surface satellite wind observations of hurricanes and their impact on ECMWF model analyses and forecasts

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1274-1286

  Tomassini, M ^a   Lemeur, D ^a   Saunders, R W ^a  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONE; DATASET; ERS-1; ERS01; HURRICANE; METEOSAT; SATELLITE SENSING; SURFACE WIND; WEATHER FORECAST;

ATLANTIC, (TROPICAL);

EID: 0031671098     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/1520-0493(1998)126<1274:NSSWOO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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